Monday, May 1, 2017

FLASH UPDATE: THE "THERE IS NO WAY THIS IS [OK]" EDITION

I JUST GOT A HOT-UNDER-THE-COLLAR E-MAIL FROM ONE OF THE CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATES THAT POSITIVELY SEEMS TO BE IRATE AFTER SEEING A RATHER PRO-LIAM MC CABE ARTICLE IN THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE

"BUBBLE, BUBBLE TOIL AND TROUBLE..." --- IS THIS A TEMPEST IN A TEA POT ? ? ? --- OR --- IS THERE SOMETHING TOXIC REALLY BREWING ? ? ?

WELL, OUR "SNOW WHITE" CANDIDATE HAS ALREADY BITTEN FROM THE UBER-APPLE FOR CAMPAIGN PURPOSES, IT SEEMS --- LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT (YES, THAT'S CALLED A MIXED METAPHOR, JUST GO WITH IT)

Here's the start of Paula Katinas' article for the Brooklyn Eagle --- it tells the basic story up front, in good inverted pyramid style --- "Monday marked the first work day that R-train riders could not catch the train at the Bay Ridge Avenue station due to the closure of the subway stop, and the disruption in their daily routine made riders angry and confused.... MTA, which is renovating the subway stop under itsEnhanced Station Initiative, is closing the station for six months. The agency opted not to provide shuttle bus service so that passengers would be able to get on the R train at the 77th Street or 59th Street stations.... In an effort to fill that void, a Bay Ridge City Council candidate decided to get behind the wheel of his car and offer free rides to passengers from the station at Bay Ridge Avenue and Fourth Avenue to the next station at 59th Street and Fourth Avenue during the morning rush hour on Monday.... 'I figured it’s the least I can do,'Republican Liam McCabe told theBrooklyn Eagle...." (See "City Council candidate gives R train passengers a lift" by Paula Katinas, 5/1/17 The Brooklyn Daily Eagle [http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2017/5/1/city-council-candidate-gives-r-train-passengers-lift]).

Don't jump to conclusions who this unhappy adversary to Liam McCabe might be..... SEVERAL of the current crop of Democrat and Republican challengers for the 43rd Counc. Dist. seat, now held by the Hon. Vincent Gentile, have been known to E-mail me (and even occasionally placing a telephone call, using unrecognizable voices to throw me off the scent)..... But, enough of that for now.....

WHAT HAS THIS OTHER CANDIDATE SO BENT OUT OF SHAPE --- APART FROM THE OBVIOUS GOOD PRESS FOR A COMPETITOR LIKE "LIAM"

Well, according City Council Candidate "X": "This can't be [fitting and proper] with the Campaign Finance Board. Liam using his corporate TLC Uber car to give people free rides for political favors? Yikes!... 'City Council candidate gives R train passengers a lift....'..."Well, now, maybe City Council Candidate "X" does have a point..... Then again, maybe NOT.....

Maybe, this'll get even more interesting as the time goes by --- and the wicked Queen looks into the looking-glass and says, "Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all... me or Liam ? ..."

Now don't go gettin' ahead of yourself..... There's a long way to go before any "primary" --- and that means for Liam, Bob and Johnny Boy.....

Maybe, it'll all start to get real when we have our first mass assembly of Republicans at Marty Golden's house on Thursday night --- wait a minute, it's not at Golden's house, it's at Golden's gold mine, the Bay Ridge Manor.....

They say it's going to be a debate between Capano, Quaglione and McCabe.....

Who's they ???

Some kind of robo-caller saying he's from some kind of "...Republican this..." and another kind of "...Young Republican..." that.....

Somebody tell me how it goes. I'll have to stay home Thursday night to brush my hair.....

LATELY IN HIS "COMMON SENSE" COLUMN, JERRY KASSAR HAS BEEN TRUMPETING EVERYTHING THAT ASSEMBLYWOMAN NICOLE MALLIOTAKIS HAS DONE AND SAID --- TWO DIFFERENT SOURCES HAVE PROVIDED AN EXPLANATION --- TWO DIFFERENT VERSIONS, BUT ONLY ONE EXPLANATION

NICOLE IS GOING TO RUN FOR MAYOR AGAINST KAISER WILHELM AND JERRY KASSAR IS GOING TO BE A KEY SENIOR ADVISER TO HER CAMPAIGN --- POSSIBLY EVEN THE CAMPAIGN MANAGER

As far as my part in all this breathless intrigue, arguably it began at around 11:30 this morning. Unfortunately, at that time I wasn't around to catch the call; in as much as I was atop Coogan's Bluff reliving my angst over that Bobby Thompson thing in the last millennium. Contact was finally made at four this afternoon, and the initial story was completely poured out to me by 4:30 in the PM.

The long and the short of it comes down to this: "Can you believe that Nicole is really running for mayor, and Kassar is running the campaign ?"

I really didn't strongly bight into this seemingly juicy tidbit. Something about it hit me like yesterday's Hollandaise.....

I decided to beat the bushes (no not that; I reached out to one of my apostles by phone). As luck would have it, this source was on top of this story like the little white squiggle on a Hostess Cupcake.

"Yes, yes, YES ! ! !" my guy said, just like Meg Ryan's Deli scene in "When Harry Met Sally" --- except this time, I don't think my source was faking it one bit. You see, this part of the story is grounded in a leak from somebody very close to the Malliotakis Campaign and other key players in the piece, ie. both Kassar and my other source.

According to the second source, both Kassar and Malliotakis are looking for somebody to run her city-wide campaign.

So for now, it looks like the part of this story that says Kassar is running the Malliotakis Show for Mayor is probably false --- everything else is a second sourced piece..... And that's better than most of my leads.....

Yes, John Catsamatedes is out of the 2017 mayoral race as a candidate; as for Craig Eaton's and Bob Capano's being "done in the Brooklyn GOP" --- that is absolutely false.

Your comment above is well beyond ANY legitimate observation, expression of any well-founded opinion, and/or any other category of fair comment, discussion or criticism. What it is IS pure propaganda and very close to, what is called in the contemporary idiom, "fake news."

TRUST ME ON THIS ONE >>> I know from my personal observation(s) and well-supported hearsay that Capano, Eaton and even Catsimatedes continue to be VERY ACTIVE in Brooklyn GOP intra-party politics --- and they have a few cards up their sleeves for some big plays in 2017. (My only problem with them, right now, is with some of their "under the radar" [one of their phrases] activities; because it allows people like Commenter 8:23 AM above to make false statements, which come across as observations, that Eaton and Capano are "done" when that is far from the case.)

Gail, very feisty and very interesting, BUT A birdie on the wall told me that some people inside the Brooklyn GOP think that Malliotakis switched to the 'Golden faction' side in his five year fight to get control the Brooklyn GOP away from Eaton; and that the Mallotakis move was engineered by Jerry Kassar using the almost meaningless and completely worthless 2017 Republican-Conservative nomination for mayor. Obviously that is not good news for Capano, who thought he was close to Nicole.As Far as Eaton is concerned, he might not be 'done' but he sure is losing badly in Brooklyn. And I defy you to call any part of what I wrote 'fake news'.

9:56 are you insane? Nicole never thought about running for Mayor in 2017 until about two weeks ago when a) Cats dropped out and b) she realized she was positioned against Blas becasuse of her lawsuit.

You call me insane, and you come out with your cockamie crock about what Catsimadedes did and what happened TWO WEEKS AGO. The facebook page 'ELECT Nicole Malliotakis for NYC MAYOR 2017@draftnicole4nycmayor' has been on line for over a month. So stop the bullshit denials, plus Nicole is in a bunch of recent pictures with Marty Golden.

I sincerely hope that you aren't grouping me in with whomever "You guys..." might be. If you look above in this thread of comments, you'll see my earlier comment, "RESPONSE: THE 'ANYTHING BUT DONE' EDITION..."

I know full well that Craig Eaton and his "faction" is still viable and active --- whether he has an island or not is not something that I have any information about --- but maybe it does mean something, I really can't say one way or the other.

AS SURE AS GOD MADE LITTLE GREEN APPLES, TONIGHT'S COUNCIL CANDIDATES' "DEBATE" WON'T BE HALF AS MUCH FUN AS THE VIDEO OF "THIS TRAIN IS BOUND FOR GLORY" BY MUMFORD AND SONS, EDWARD SHARPE AND THE OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW ON YOU TUBE

Of course, it'll help if you like to watch a mix of Blue Grass and Dixieland jammin' by a ton-and-a-half of wild-n-crazy folks moved by the Lord and other spirits.....

CAPANO JUMPS TOWARD THE MALLIOTAKIS BANDWAGON --- DID HE SUCCEED IN GETTING ON BOARD ? ? ? OR DID HIS CALL DISAPPEAR INTO THE ETHER, UN-NOTICED; UN-ACKNOWLEDGED; AND MOST DAMNING, UN-REQUITED

ALL IT SHOWS IS THAT NOT ONLY IS HE POLITICALLY OUT OF THE LOOP --- HE'S >>> HOPING <<< FOR SOMETHING RECIPROCAL THAT PROBABLY WILL NEVER HAPPEN

According to a report in the Brooklyn Eagle --- "The Republican Party should coalesce behind one candidate to take on Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio and that one candidate should be Bay Ridge Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis, according to a man running for the City Council seat representing the neighborhood.... Bob Capano, a candidate for the Republican nomination to run in the election for the 43rd Council District, said he wants to see unity in the mayor’s race.... In a statement issued on May 3, Capano called for 'Republicans in Brooklyn and our city to unite behind Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis in the race for our party's nomination for mayor.'... 'Assemblymember Malliotakis' years in the state Legislature give her a keen understanding of the issues, policies and problems that affect this city and its citizens. Her age, immigrant roots and the fact that she's half Greek and half Cuban, will help her relate to so many voters in this diverse city and will attract many new voters to our Republican Party. She is a tireless campaigner and a strong, independent, Republican woman who'll fight for our neighborhoods and our city,' he said....." (See "Capano says GOP should unite behind Malliotakis" by Paula Katinas, 5/4/17, Brooklyn Daily Eagle [http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2017/5/4/capano-says-gop-should-unite-behind-malliotakis]).

Paula Katinas' report of Capano's final quote is telling: ".... "John Catsimatidis' withdrawal from the race has opened the door for another good friend to enter the race,” Capano said, referring to Malliotakis. ("[O]pened the door for another good friend to enter the race" ! ! ! Bob must have completely missed that Nicole had passed through that "open door" over a month before, while his boss Cats was still on the fence, but still talking about running.....)

Whatever good will Ghorra has earned in the past few months got flushed down the crapper tonight at the City Council Debate.

Despite previously-agreed ground rules that specifically permitted distribution of campaign material, the Brooklyn GOP instituted a last minute ban on campaign flyers. Then a few minutes later, they announced that no posters or signs for any candidates would be permitted.

And finally a few minutes after that, they got up again and added stickers and buttons to the list.

Much of this was directed specifically at McCabe supporters by the closeted Quaglione backers in the Brooklyn GOP -- who were caught flatfooted at the event without Quaglione flyers, without Quaglione posters, and without Quaglione stickers or buttons.

So, naturally, they made an impromptu call for all campaign material to be banned. At a political debate.

"I am shocked! Shocked, I tell you that anybody would dare to try to engage in such cras political stunts as an attempt to pass out literature and display posters at a political gathering, in a political venue and whose purpose was to engage in some kind of political debate."

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I formerly have commented on various political blogs concerning Republican politics. Although the focus of my political commentary has been on the Brooklyn GOP and other aspects of politics in Brooklyn, I have also posted commentary about national matters.
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